Areas of Practice

Areas of Practice

Corporate & Commercial

Corporate & Commercial

The Corporate and Commercial Practice team is supported by a team of dedicated and highly-trained lawyers who advise on mergers and acquisitions, equity transactions, joint ventures, contracts and other commercial work both domestically and in cross-border markets. Based and licensed in Singapore, our legal team can assist with due diligence, negotiations, drafting of documentation and are a one-stop-shop for incorporating a company and other legal entities in Singapore. We routinely assist our clients with Investment Agreements, Commercial Contracts, Licenses, Distribution Agreements, Shareholders’ Agreements and Joint Venture Agreements. Our firm also advises on compliance to the changing regulatory environment in Singapore such as date protection, anti-corruption legislation and employment policies. Our lawyers are also active members of several associations and chambers of commerce in Singapore, such as the Canada-ASEAN Business Council and the American, Canadian, European, Italian and Irish Chambers of Commerce in Singapore.

Family Law

Family Law

We strive to put a human touch to our Family law legal services while adhering to the highest standards of ethics and professionalism. Our services include divorce, separation, custody disputes, maintenance, division of assets, visitation and adoption. We are solutions orientated and practical in our approaches. Our lawyers have extensive expertise in conducting matters before the Family and Juvenile Courts and are also experienced in cross-border family law disputes such as parental child abductions, relocation disputes and Hague Convention applications. Our team comprises of both Singapore and foreign lawyers and we have a proven history of successfully and delicately handling family law matters. As part of our commitment to the community, we regularly give presentations at chamber events, to counsellors and other social welfare organizations and contribute articles on legal updates in publications.

Civil & Commercial Disputes

Civil & Commercial Disputes

Our Commercial and Civil Disputes Team have developed effective dispute strategies and provide sound advice and creative solutions, taking into account practical and commercial considerations in negotiations directed towards pre-empting potential or actual disputes. We advise on contractual, construction and, land disputes, banking and financial disputes, tortious disputes such as medical negligence claims, defamation, commercial litigation, minority oppression, building and construction disputes, corporate litigation, debt collection, corporate and personal insolvency, landlord and tenant disputes and applications under the Companies Act. In each of these areas, our firm emphasizes early, frequent and responsive communication with you about the facts of a case, the legal issues, various strategies and cost, and seeks to handle cases realistically and pragmatically often with the use of alternative dispute resolution methods such as mediation and arbitration where feasible.

Employment Disputes

Employment Disputes

Our Employment law team provides comprehensive legal advisory services relating to employment issues and legal representation in employment disputes. We represent both employees and employers in advising on labour laws, employment terms (including stock option plans and employment benefits) ,staff policies for employees, restructurings and redundancies, summary dismissal and wrongful termination. Whether you require advice on employment issues arising during restructuring, for expatriate relocation or secondments, for mergers and acquisition, wrongful termination and summary dismissal matters, post-termination issues relating to restraint of trade and garden leave matters, we are able to provide you with comprehensive legal advice on the same.We also assist in negotiations, terminations or resignations, and in litigation. Our team relies on a myriad of methods to help you achieve a resolution, including mediation and other alternative dispute resolution methods.

Wills & Guardianship

Wills & Guardianship

Our compassionate legal team has the expertise and experience in assisting you with your estate needs, such as planning of estates and successions, whether purely local or international. Our lawyers work with clients on a private and personal basis to help them pass their assets to their families and to charities both during lifetime and upon death. We analyse and implement asset protection strategies to help our clients plan for their families’ future welfare, and help to simplify the process of the distribution of your loved one’s estate in a timely and cost-effective manner. We are able to assist with the drafting and execution of Wills, Lasting Power of Attorney and Court applications such as for the resealing of foreign probate, the grant of probate and the grant of letters of administration.

Mediation

Mediation

Through our mediation practice, we attempt to settle all disputes amicably. This approach is both cost-effective and provides our clients with their involvement in arriving at creative solutions not ordinarily available in the litigation process. Some of our lawyers are accredited mediators in Singapore and overseas and have extensive experience in mediating disputes. In mediation, a mediator facilitates the discussion to help disputing parties arrive at a mutually acceptable agreement. The parties are able to save on time, legal costs and minimize the stress from having to face resolving the dispute in the Courts.